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Logic Quotes

Posted by Nabil Medawar in Miscellaneous Quotes, tags: Logic, logical

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.~ Ursula K. LeGuin
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Better to be without logic than without feeling.~ Charlotte Brontë
Coincidence is logical.~ Johan Cruijff
Eloquence is logic on fire.~ Lyman Beecher
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.~ Victor Borge
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?~ Edward M. Forster
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.~ Lord Dunsany
Logic and consistency are luxuries for the gods and the lower animals.~ Samuel Butler
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.~ Winston Churchill
Logic is like the sword — those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.~ Samuel Butler
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.~ Benjamin Jowett
Logic is the anatomy of thought.~ John Locke
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.~ Marlene Dietrich
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.~ Albert Einstein
Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.~ Author Unknown
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.~ Joseph Joubert
Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.~ Author Unknown
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.~ William E. Gladstone
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.~ William Butler Yeats
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.~ Oswald Chambers
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Reason also is choice.~ John Milton
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.~ A. N. Wilson
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.~ Bernard Devoto
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.~ Charles A. Lindbergh
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.~ Edith Hamilton
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.~ Gilbert K. Chesterton